Learn how these slow-moving creatures recycle nutrients through their poop to keep coral reefs thriving and oceans balanced.

A reverse image search using Google Lens revealed that the video had been shared across the internet on a variety of social media platforms since as early as March 20, 2024, including on YouTube, ...

PROGRESO, Mexico — Ricardo Domínguez Cano stared at the Yucatán Peninsula's intense blue sea as he remembered a different time, before a vital sea animal was endangered. “The sea cucumber was not ...

A deep-diving submersible has discovered 10 sea cucumber species emitting light for the first time in their natural habitat. The observations were “totally unexpected, like a spectacular movie,” says ...

Holothuria edulis is better known as the burnt hot dog sea cucumber. Besides having a terrific name, this creature is fascinating—one that scientists insist is an underrated but valuable member of ...

Sea cucumbers are marine invertebrates found in every ocean around the world. There are over 1,700 known species, ranging from less than an inch to over 6 feet long. Although many have elongated, ...

What crawls across the sea floor, can cost more than silver by the pound, and, according to several seemingly reputable scientific sources, “breathes” through its anus? Meet the sea cucumber – the ...

An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildlife traffickers pleaded guilty this week in federal court in California to illegally importing endangered sea cucumbers — which are prized in China for food and medicine and as ...

Scientists in a submarine in the South China Sea found a reddish ocean animal with over 70 feet and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Sarah Lee via Unsplash Scientists onboard a ...